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• Freshwater Bay (Western Australia) — This article is about the geographical feature. For the publishing company see Fresh Water Bay Press Freshwater Bay is a bay of the Swan River, in metropolitan Perth, Western Australia. It is about 5 km upstream from the mouth of the river at… …   Wikipedia

• Limestone Salamander — Taxobox name = Limestone Salamander status = VU | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Amphibia ordo = Caudata familia = Plethodontidae genus = Hydromantes species = H. brunus binomial = Hydromantes brunus… …   Wikipedia

• freshwater lens —    1. Body of fresh ground water found typically beneath permeable limestone islands or peninsular land masses in the tropics. The lens shaped water body is bounded above by a water table and below by a mixing zone between fresh and saline ground …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• Bembridge-Limestone-Formation — Die Bembridge Limestone Formation ist eine geologische Formation im Hampshire Becken in Südengland. Sie ist die mittlere Formation der Solent Gruppe und wurde im Oberen Eozän abgelagert. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Typlokalität und Vorkommen 2… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Carboniferous Period — Interval of geologic time 354–290 million years ago, marked by great changes in world geography. All the landmasses drew closer together as a result of tectonic plate movements. The supercontinent Gondwana occupied much of the Southern Hemisphere …   Universalium

• Geology of the Grand Canyon area — The geology of the Grand Canyon area exposes one of the most complete sequences of rock anywhere, representing a period of nearly 2 billion years of the Earth s history in that part of North America. The major sedimentary rock layers exposed in… …   Wikipedia

• Tertiary Period — Interval of geologic time, 65–1. 8 million years ago. It constitutes the first of the two periods of the Cenozoic Era, the second being the Quaternary. The Tertiary has five subdivisions: (from oldest to youngest) the Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene …   Universalium

• Sussex Marble — West Sussex has a good concentration of relatively thin layers of Sussex Marble (also called Petworth Marble or Winklestone) within the Weald Clay, a freshwater limestone referred to as marble as it takes a polish. It is not a geologically… …   Wikipedia

• Charles Lyell — For other people named Charles Lyell, see Charles Lyell (disambiguation). Sir Charles Lyell, Bt Born …   Wikipedia

• Thanetian — The Thanetian (also known as the Landenian or Heersian) is the last stage of the Paleocene Epoch, corresponding to the Late Paleocene sub epoch. It spans the time between 58.7 ± 0.2 Ma and 55.8 ± 0.2 Ma (million years ago). The name derives from… …   Wikipedia

• Charles Lyell — Sir Charles Lyell (* 14. November 1797 zu Kinnordy in Forfarshire; † 22. Februar 1875 in London) war ein britischer Geologe. Inhaltsverzeichnis …   Deutsch Wikipedia